Rafael Blasco was imprisoned in Valencia yesterday for looting money destined for the Third World

The ex PP Minister in the Valencia regional government has been served a six and a half year prison sentence after being found guilty of three crimes.

Jun 16, 2015 - 7:26 AM

He has entered prison for the crime of the misuse of public funds, administrative prevarication, and the falsity of an official document. He entered the jail in Picassent (Valencia) at 9am in the morning yesterday.

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He will undergo the usual entry protocols; see a doctor, educator and psychologist before being moved to the module for first arrivals, or if some medical problem is detected to the prison hospital.

The other three sentenced in the ‘Blasco case’, Alejandro Catalá, Agustina Sanjuan and Marcial López should also have entered prison yesterday, but the Valencia High Court noted they had until midnight to arrive.

The two deputies who reported in October 2012 the irregularities in the destination of the fund for development cooperation, Clara Tirado (PSPV) and Mireia Mollá (Compromis) considered the entry to prison for Blasco was ‘a symbol for all the Valencia Community and a reason for satisfaction that all the people in Valencia can trust and believe in justice, because this has coincided in time with the fall of the Partido Popular regimen’.